In 1976, Lamport visited the Netherlands and worked with Carl Holt (not Dijkstra directly) for a month, meeting with Dijkstra once a week, and produced one published paper—a variant of the bakery algorithm—as the only tangible result.
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“I was invited to uh spend a month uh but not with Dysterra, with a colleague of his, Carl Carl Holton. Only one thing that was ever published came out of that.”
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport— Ryan PetermanCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM
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